HOUSTON — A chaotic string of crashes and armed carjackings shut down parts of the Gulf Freeway Thursday morning as Houston police raced to track down a suspect accused of firing shots, stealing multiple vehicles at gunpoint, and leaving one woman dead.

Houston Police seek identity of a suspect in a Southwest Houston smoke shop robbery involving an assault on an employee.

Police are seeking a possible person of interest in connection to the deadly shooting at Cloverland Park in Southeast Houston over the weekend. Police say a boy was killed, and a girl was injured Saturday night during a party.

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Houston attorney Tony Buzbee is calling for the Austin Police Department to reopen the investigation into the death of Brianna Aguilera, a Texas A&M student who fell to her death from an apartment complex after attending a tailgate for the A&M-Texas rivalry football game.

Houston police say a man was pepper-sprayed on a Montrose street late at night, which temporarily blinded him. He stumbled into traffic and was hit by another vehicle. The man survived and is recovering. Police have released surveillance video to help identify the driver of the first car.

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Houston police say a driver has been charged after allegedly running over two women fighting in the street on Cullen Boulevard, then leaving the scene.